Mike Huckabee: Saving unborn like saving elderly

If Americans don’t protect the unborn, they won’t protect people at the end of life either, Mike Huckabee said Wednesday night at a Washington gala sponsored by the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List.

The former Arkansas governor and one-time presidential candidate said women typically cite hardship or inconvenience as their reason for getting an abortion — the same reasons that he said could be used to justify ending the lives of the elderly.

“We’ve already given them the full capability to take us out,” he said, prompting laughter from his audience as he continued, “Now, I’m not going to make it that easy for my children to get rid of me.”

Huckabee also urged GOP members of Congress who were in attendance — including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Reps. James Lankford of Oklahoma, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Trent Franks of Arizona — to make opposition to abortion a bigger part of the Republican message in the midterm elections.

“I will not yield one iota on the notion … that unique human life begins at the moment of conception,” he said. “That’s not how we lose an election, that’s how we win elections.”

SBA List focuses on electing female candidates to Congress who oppose abortion, along with advocating for state and federal laws limiting abortion.